Big (Dinner) Plans for 2008
December 13, 2007 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Baseball, Sports Rumors
“Auld Lang Syne,” champagne, and ball-dropping (not that kind! Unless you come in from the cold . . .) are just a few weeks away. Know what that means, kiddos?
It’s New Year’s Resolution time! And in 2008, yours truly is aiming higher than a pre-rehab Lindsay Lohan.
The goal: To have dinner with our favorite re-signed free agents, Red Sox players Curt Schilling and Mike Lowell. Significant others included, natch.
The reason: Schilling is the man behind the Legendary Bloody Sock of 2004, a highlight in Red Sox lore. Lowell was the 2007 World Series MVP. And both proved to Beantown that a fatter paycheck wasn’t enough to lure them to another team.
The setting: The Capital Grille, a high-end steakhouse on Newbury Street in Boston. My hubby and I dine there whenever we’re in town for a Sox game, so it’s only fitting. And what ballplayer doesn’t love a nice filet mignon? We’ll even pick up the tab!
Aw heck, we’ll provide the entertainment, too. We’ll hire these guys to swing by and perform a special song (1m, 37s) for the two guests of honor:
In truth, we’d settle for a round of Happy Meals at McDonald’s with our Sox heroes. Or even a drivethrough coffee run at Dunkin’ Donuts.
Do you think if we pinged Curt Schilling over at his 38 Pitches blog, he’d email us and say, “Heck ya, sweetcheeks! Make the reservation!”?
OK, maybe that’s a stretch. He probably wouldn’t call us “sweetcheeks.” But you never know . . .
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I think having dinner with a couple of the Yankees would be easier to set up … just tell them you’ve got steroids and HGH and they’d be all over it like a fat kid on cake.
Mark, I like your thinking! And, of course, your swipe at the Yankees . . .
You childless people and your wild social lives.
Kate–I cannot deny the charge. Last night we dined in the North End of Boston, took in a Celtics game, and stayed at the Onyx hotel. It would hypocritical of me, as I write from the hotel room wearing one of the leopard-print robes they provide, to claim otherwise.
Did ya hear that, Curt and Mike? We’re game for this get-together, we really are!
Great plan! But they should totally be the ones paying! :)
Winnie–You know, you have a point. I do remember reading somewhere that baseball players get paid more than bloggers . . .
what? baseball players get paid more than us?? That’s news to me. I thought I was in a top dollar market here.
I know, Sally, it came as a shock to me as well. They get all the endorsement deals, too!